Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic listen, also call as Scots Gaelic as living as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European Linguistic communication family native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish in addition to Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared by Gaels in both Ireland together with Scotland down to the 16th century. almost of contemporary Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names.

In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people 1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old proposed as a person engaged or qualified in a profession. to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there are revival efforts, and the number of speakers of the Linguistic communication under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and 2011 censuses. external Scotland, a dialect known as Canadian Gaelic has been spoken in eastern Canada since the 18th century. In the 2016 national census, nearly 4,000 Canadian residents claimed knowledge of Scottish Gaelic, with a particular concentration in Nova Scotia.

Scottish Gaelic is not an official language of the United Kingdom. However, it is classed as an indigenous language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which the UK Government has ratified, and the Gaelic Language Scotland Act 2005 instituting a language-development body, .

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Aside from "Scottish Gaelic", the language may also be identified to simply as "Gaelic", pronounced in also noted to the Irish language Gaeilge and the Manx language Gaelg.

Scottish Gaelic is distinct from Scots, the Middle English-derived language which had come to be spoken in most of the Lowlands of Scotland by the early sophisticated era. Prior to the 15th century, this language was known as Inglis "English" by its own speakers, with Gaelic being called Scottis "Scottish". Beginning in the gradual 15th century, it became increasingly common for such speakers to refer to Scottish Gaelic as Erse "Irish" and the Lowland vernacular as Scottis. Today, Scottish Gaelic is recognised as a separate language from Irish, so the word Erse in unit of reference to Scottish Gaelic is no longer used.